Discover the best time of year, based on historical climate, temperature, and precipitation.
The best weather in Gorakhpur is from February, November, December. — consistent weather climate
⛈Hot & rainy
| Score | 97 | 98 | 92 | 65 | 52 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 77 | 100 | 99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Climate | Mild | Pleasant | Pleasant | Hot & dry | Hot & dry | Hot & rainy | Hot & rainy | Hot & rainy | Hot & rainy | Hot & dry | Pleasant | Mild |
| Temperature | 10–20°C | 13–25°C | 18–31°C | 23–36°C | 25–36°C | 27–36°C | 26–32°C | 26–32°C | 25–31°C | 22–31°C | 16–28°C | 12–23°C |
| Feels like | 8–20°C | 12–25°C | 18–31°C | 23–37°C | 28–40°C | 31–41°C | 31–38°C | 31–38°C | 30–38°C | 25–35°C | 17–29°C | 11–23°C |
| Precipitation | 19mm 2 days | 16mm 1 days | 21mm 2 days | 16mm 1 days | 66mm 4 days | 195mm 13 days | 418mm 30 days | 313mm 27 days | 243mm 20 days | 55mm 5 days | 1mm 0 days | 10mm 1 days |
| Sunshine | 8.9h ☀︎ 84% | 10.2h ☀︎ 90% | 10.5h ☀︎ 88% | 11.3h ☀︎ 88% | 11.3h ☀︎ 84% | 10.1h ☀︎ 73% | 5.3h ☀︎ 39% | 5.9h ☀︎ 45% | 7.9h ☀︎ 64% | 10.0h ☀︎ 87% | 9.8h ☀︎ 91% | 9.0h ☀︎ 86% |
| Wind | W · 12 km/h | W · 14 km/h | NW · 16 km/h | N · 21 km/h | NE · 19 km/h | E · 19 km/h | E · 18 km/h | E · 16 km/h | E · 15 km/h | NW · 11 km/h | NW · 11 km/h | NW · 11 km/h |
| Humidity (%) | 80% | 70% | 54% | 43% | 56% | 67% | 84% | 85% | 85% | 75% | 68% | 74% |
| Day length | 10.7h | 11.3h | 12.0h | 12.8h | 13.5h | 13.8h | 13.6h | 13.1h | 12.3h | 11.5h | 10.8h | 10.5h |
The Khichdi Mela is a massive month-long religious fair held at the Gorakhnath Temple, centered on Makar Sankranti in mi…
On paper, November offers Gorakhpur's cleanest sky, but the city pays for it with overwhelming congestion; February captures the same effortless eastern plains winter with half the foot traffic.
Gorakhpur does not solicit casual tourists, and it makes no apologies for it. Anchored on the flat riverbanks of the Rapti river in eastern Uttar Pradesh, this is a working junction city: a powerhouse of the North Eastern Railway, an administrative anchor for the Purvanchal region, and a pilgrim destination of extraordinary gravity. Travellers come for two distinct reasons—to pay homage at the sprawling complex of the Gorakhnath Temple or to visit Gita Press, where millions of devotional texts roll off historic printing presses into the bloodstream of northern India. The city has an unvarnished, kinetic pulse. How you experience it depends almost entirely on whether you step into its streets during the crisp lull of late winter or arrive when the monsoon turns the entire Gangetic basin into a steaming, waterlogged cauldron.
Standard travel orthodoxy points travellers toward late autumn, but February is the true prize of the Gorakhpur calendar. The piercing morning chill of deep winter has softened into crisp, golden daylight, leaving daytime temperatures hovering around a gentle 25 degrees. You can wander between the vast inner courtyards of the Gorakhnath Temple and the historic printing rooms of Gita Press without breaking a sweat or dodging bone-rattling seasonal drafts.
What makes February unbeatable is the sudden release of pressure. The pilgrim tides that swarm the city for the mid-winter religious festivals have receded, the railway station returns to an orderly hum, and the streets leading down toward the Rapti river settle into an easy, dust-mellowed stride. You receive virtually identical weather to the autumn peak, but you inherit a city that has space to breathe.
November is undeniably pristine in terms of sheer atmosphere. The rain has stopped entirely, the air off the northern foothills remains dry and clear, and the afternoon sun warms the brick facades without burning. But this perfection is no secret. November is Gorakhpur at maximum density: traffic along the main thoroughfares grinds to a horn-blaring crawl, the railway platforms overflow, and the courtyards around the Gorakhnath Math are constantly packed shoulder-to-shoulder with visiting delegations and pilgrims from across Bihar and Nepal.
December cools further, bringing drifting morning mists that hang over the Rapti river until midday. The city acquires an atmospheric, cinematic stillness early in the day, though the cold can feel unexpectedly biting indoors where heating is rare. It remains a magnificent time for walking, provided you do not mind sharing every square metre of pavement with the winter throngs.
January belongs wholly to the Khichdi Mela. Centred on Makar Sankranti, this month-long fair transforms the grounds of the Gorakhnath Temple into one of northern India's most intense cultural spectacles. Pilgrims by the hundred thousand arrive from across rural Purvanchal and the Nepal border, bearing brass vessels of raw rice, lentils, and turmeric to offer to the temple shrine.
The weather during January is sharp, dry, and cold, with heavy fog frequently grounding early trains and muting the daylight. It is a thrilling, hypnotic month if you want to witness living Hindu devotional traditions on a grand scale, but it demands patience and endurance. If you are not in Gorakhpur explicitly for the mela, the city during January can feel completely overtaken by it.
The grace of winter evaporates with astonishing speed. By late March, the gentle warmth of the plains turns fierce. The dry westerly winds, known locally as the loo, begin to scour the open ground along the river, kicking up fine silt and pushing mid-afternoon temperatures well past comfortable limits. If you must explore Gita Press or wander the markets, you do it in the first hours after sunrise.
By May, the heat is unrelenting, and the city retreats indoors behind shuttered windows and whirring fans. Evenings bring little relief, as heat radiates back out of the concrete and tarmac long after dark. While visitor numbers thin out compared to winter, this is an unforgiving season for walking the city, suited only to those whose business cannot wait.
June produces an uncomfortable paradox: crowds begin to rebuild even as the climate collapses into oppressive misery. The air turns thick and swampy ahead of the monsoon, with apparent temperatures routinely feeling higher than 40 degrees. When the torrential downpours break over eastern Uttar Pradesh in July and August, they do not merely clear the air; they drench the flat topography with hundreds of millimetres of rain.
The Rapti river swells toward its banks, low-lying alleys pool with water, and getting across town becomes an exhausting negotiation with rain-slicked mud and stalled traffic. September sees the rains taper slightly, but the lingering humidity remains thick enough to fog camera lenses and soak through shirts within minutes of leaving shelter. Avoid this stretch entirely if your aim is open-air exploration.
October is the reset button. The monsoon retreats back down the Ganges basin, taking the suffocating moisture with it, while bright, unobstructed blue skies re-emerge over the city. While early October afternoons can still pack a lingering humid punch, the evenings turn delightfully brisk.
This is a short, transitional sweet spot. The city is clean-swept by the late rains, the temple grounds are relatively peaceful before the November rush, and walking the lanes around the historic core feels restorative again. It stands as the quiet doorway to winter, best enjoyed just before the festival crowds descend.